Merlise A. Clyde
Merlise Aycock Clyde is an American statistician known for her work in model averaging for Bayesian statistics. She is a Professor of Statistical Science and chair of the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University.[1] She was president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) in 2013,[2] and chair of the Section on Bayesian Statistical Science of the American Statistical Association for 2018.[3]
Education
Clyde graduated from Oregon State University in 1985 with a BS in Forestry. She earned two master's degrees, one from the University of Alberta in 1986 in Forest Biometrics and another from the University of California, Riverside in 1988 in Statistics, before completing her Ph.D. at the University of Minnesota in 1993 in Statistics.[1] Her dissertation, supervised by Kathryn Chaloner, was Bayesian Optimal Designs for Approximate Normality[4], which received the Savage Award for outstanding dissertation in Bayesian econometrics and statistics in 1994 [5].
Awards and honors
Clyde is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, of ISBA,[1] and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[6] She was one of two winners of the Zellner Medal of the ISBA in 2016 "for their outstanding service to ISBA".[7]
References
- ^ a b c "Merlise Clyde, Professor of Statistical Science", Faculty, Duke University Department of Statistical Science, retrieved 2017-10-25
- ^ Past Officers, Board Members, and Appointments, retrieved 2017-10-25
- ^ "Current Officers", Section on Bayesian Statistical Science, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2017-10-25
- ^ Merlise A. Clyde at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Savage Award", ISBA, International Society for Bayesian Analysis
- ^ Honored IMS Fellows, retrieved 2020-07-01
- ^ MacEachern, Steve (June 2016), "A message from the president", ISBA Bulletin, 23 (2): 1–2
External links
- Home page
- Merlise A. Clyde publications indexed by Google Scholar
- American statisticians
- Women statisticians
- Oregon State University alumni
- University of Alberta alumni
- University of California, Riverside alumni
- University of Minnesota alumni
- Duke University faculty
- Fellows of the American Statistical Association
- Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- Living people